Celtic Music on Community Radio

Samhain Special – playlist

Before there was Halloween there was All Hallows Eve, and before that All Souls Night, and before that… Samhain, celebrated by Gaels as the end of harvest season and a time to begin slaughtering livestock, thus a time to think on death and the dead. It also represents the time of transition from light to darkness, falling about a month after the equinox, when the days are noticeably shorter than nights.